Where I live $2 a day will get you a hand of bananas and a couple ears of corn, which doesn't seem like it'd be enough to subsist on. What would your grocery list for a weeks worth of food on a $14 budget look like?
$2/day on food is a load of shit. It sounds straight up like /r/frugaljerk advice.
I mean, you won't starve, but it would be one of those things contributing to the poverty mentality. Children, especially, need meat, physically active people need creatine, not easily gotten from plant-based foods. Not to mention fruits and vegetables will add extra (even frozen ones)
A 4-pack of fresh tomatoes alone is $2, at the very least.
Not to mention forcing people to eat boiled corn or lentils every days for years is damn near cruel.
I guess you could supplement it by dumpster diving for produce, but at that point you could also make the ridiculous claim of not having to pay for food at all.
He did get one thing right though: the biggest cost is housing.
>Children, especially, need meat, physically active people need creatine, not easily gotten from plant-based foods.
This is entirely false, some meat marketers have duped you.
"Creatine is not an essential nutrient[8] as it is naturally produced in the human body from the amino acids glycine and arginine." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine
There are entire countries that grow up vegetarian and turn out just fine.
It's still near starving and probably very fucked up in the long term, not to mention socially and psychologically bad as well. I don't think I could pull some of that off on a long-term basis, and there's also the studies that say that being poor predisposes you to buy fatty foods:
I mean, you won't starve, but it would be one of those things contributing to the poverty mentality. Children, especially, need meat, physically active people need creatine, not easily gotten from plant-based foods. Not to mention fruits and vegetables will add extra (even frozen ones)
A 4-pack of fresh tomatoes alone is $2, at the very least.
Not to mention forcing people to eat boiled corn or lentils every days for years is damn near cruel.
I guess you could supplement it by dumpster diving for produce, but at that point you could also make the ridiculous claim of not having to pay for food at all.
He did get one thing right though: the biggest cost is housing.